Winter Wonderland will be returning for the fourth time on Tuesday with all new presents for ARK survivors. The winter-themed holiday event begins tomorrow at 10am PST for PC, XBOX, and PS4 and will last until Tuesday, January 7th. All maps will receive Winter Wonderland and all its content including RaptorClaus and GachaClaus, however, only The Island will have a visual winter theme.

One of our most notable helpers, RaptorClaus, will be back to drop off holiday gifts filled with loot, event items, mistletoe, and lumps of coal for all those naughty survivors. You'll be able to catch RaptorClaus flying across the skies at midnight (game time) on all maps.

GachaClaus is also returning to help RaptorClaus spread the holiday cheer! GachaClaus will be roaming all maps in holiday garb and sporting holiday-themed colors. He will be accepting your coal and in exchange will gift you holiday-themed items, or you can trade-in your mistletoe and coal for a chance at event items. weapons, armor and a brand new event item, Chibis!

While Winter Wonderland is active, you'll have a chance to collect over 50 ARK chibi pets. ARK chibi pets are cute miniaturized versions of the creatures you have become familiar with in your travels across the ARK universe. Chibi's pets can be leveled up by killing specific alpha creatures and in return, you'll be granted additional player levels . Some chibi pets may be harder to find so you'll have to visit GachaClaus and RaptorClaus to find all the chibi pets! Can you collect them all?

Check out the full event details on SurviveTheArk

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We at Studio Wildcard would like to give a sincere thanks to the community for participating in our latest 24 hour ExtraLife charity event. With the help of our community and ExtraLife team, we raised over $90,906.20 and beat our highest amount raised in 2018 at $76,630.27!  We couldn't have done this without the help of our generous community, our amazing sponsors, and our dedicated community who signed up to join our team. We gave away over $10K in prizes with items from Discord, AMD, Alienware, season pass keys, and more!

As with prior ExtraLife events, we take this as an opportunity to share sneak peeks at upcoming content.  In true tradition, we shared video and visuals from the upcoming Genesis DLC.  We're excited to take you on a new adventure in Genesis and look forward to sharing more unseen content.  If you missed the event on Saturday and want a sneak peek of Genesis, we've created a clip of a recap on Twitch.  This clip includes the videos and concept art of all the Genesis content that was shared during the event.


ARK: Fishing Net Item Teaser


ARK: Cruise Missile Weapon Teaser


ARK: TEK Shoulder Cannon Weapon Teaser


ARK: Magmasaur Creature Teaser


ARK: Bloodstalker Creature Teaser


ARK: Lunar Biome Environment Teaser




During the stream, we also played a few ARK mods you might be interested in. For those who wanted to know more about them, we've included links to the mods and a short description below.

Poker After Ark



The Hunt



ARK Arena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Q9-0X3Jnc


We also want to thank our moderators in the chat for helping manage the event, our sponsors, and all our Studio Wildcard survivors that were behind the scenes making the event and reveals possible!  We're looking forward to ExtraLife 2020 and if you want to find out more about ExtraLife and how to get involved, visit the ExtraLife website!


We are welcoming four new projects to the Sponsored Mod Program today! We hope to see these projects flourish and expand on the things that they do great.

Faith
Author: Snowy
Faith is a complete reenvisioning of The Island with new twists and creative ideas. If you would like to see an old favorite in a new face you should check out this labor of love.

Primal NPCs
Author: multipl3x
Primal NPCs takes some unique turns for an NPC mod, such as the ability to order them around via chat. The NPC game is evolving!

Prehistoric Structures & Paintable Structures
Author: Lisa
Prehistoric Structures offers another unique visual design for those that are interested in more primal structure designs.
Paintable Structures offers a more modern touch with an insane amount of customizability.
Between these two sets of structures, most players should be able to find something they love!

ARK Parados
Author: Malinja
ARK Parados is an overhaul mod that offers a wide range of custom creature variants. Bright colors and unique mechanics are sure to be a treat for the eyes and the adventurous.

Applying to be a Sponsored Mod
Sponsored Mod Program applications will open again on January 1st. We hope that everyone enjoys their winter break!

Happy Modding! 




PS4 Primitive+

We understand that the current issues with Primitive+ on PS4 is preventing an ideal experience.  We apologize for the delay in a patch that resolved the current issue with wild dinos.  We hope to have more information on this issue later in the week

Server Maintenance

On Thursday afternoon EST we will be conducting maintenance on our OC network across all platforms. Please check for further information, including timing on our maintenance page at ark.gg/maintenance.




There will be no EVO event rates while Fear Evolved event rates are active!  The normally scheduled event will return when Fear Evolved ends on November 8th

Until next time!

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The content from the community from Fear Evolved has been nothing less than amazing!  Due to some early launch issues, we'll be extending the event to November 8th 10AM PDT.  We realize how important these events are for our community and have been monitoring your feedback throughout the way! There is still an update planned to iron out some existing issues with creature spawns.

The feedback we receive from this event will be invaluable as we roll into Turkey Trials and Winter Wonderland.




The ExtraLife charity stream this year is going to be a hot one!  In addition to OVER 5K IN GIVEAWAYS, we'll have fun challenges and contests including 'Hot Ones' themed events.  Be sure to stop by for the 24 hours stream and tons of hilarity!

Want to hang out during the stream?  No problem!  We've set up a Discord server:

ExtraLife Discord Server Invite

https://discord.gg/v4YPpEf





PS4 Primitive+

The engineering team is attempting another patch to address the current issues with Primitive+.  We hope to have more news for you tomorrow!

Valguero Transfers

Transfers into Valguero open up tomorrow!  See the details on transfer timelines below:




There will be no EVO event rates while Fear Evolved event rates are active!

Until next time!

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The upcoming Genesis expansion adds a lot of innovative and fun new features to ARK and is our most complex expansion pack to date, with a completely new mission system that dramatically changes the way you can play ARK. As a team we have decided that an extra month of polish and balancing is needed to deliver an awesome experience to everyone on launch day, so our anticipated simultaneous release for all platforms will be late January 2020. Meanwhile, we will continue to create fun new events and updates for ARK, including today as we launch Fear Evolved 3, and with the extra time we plan to add mouse-and-keyboard support on consoles this year as well as working on some surprises for the entire community at our biggest-ever Winter Wonderland event in December!

We are excited to bring you the third annual Fear Evolved, bigger and better than before!  The blood-moon, DodoWyvern, DodoRex, have made a return to ARK from October 22nd to November 5th!  Find tombstones to and gather what you need to craft spooky skins or hunt down the elusive DoDoWyvern - the choice is up to you.  For those who have experienced Fear Evolved before, we've added some new tricks and treats to ensure Fear Evolved maintains its legacy as a community favorite.

Event Rates

2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation)
2X Player XP
2X Harvesting

Wild Creature Event Colors

NEW Event Items



Prior Event Creatures

Prior Event Items

Prior Event Skins

We hope the community enjoys Fear Evolved 3 and we look forward to bringing you more exciting events like Turkey Trials and Winter Wonderland!

Until next time!

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We are only weeks away from the ExtraLife charity stream on November 2nd 9AM PST!  As usual, this community event will be 24 hours filled with sneak peeks of future content, competitions, laughter, and embarrassment.  Most of all, all of the proceeds go towards a great cause!

What the community tends to love are the boosted rates that come with this event.  There will be official server rates bonuses as we reach our donation goals (0.5x increase for every $5,000 raised up to a max of 8x).  In addition to boosted rates, we will have giveaways and prizes for the community!  Even if you aren't available to donate money, we'd appreciate you coming by to hang out.

What is ExtraLife?
Extra Life unites thousands of gamers around the world to play games in support of their local Children's Miracle Network Hospital. Since its inception in 2008, Extra Life has raised over $50 million USD for sick and injured kids

Last Years Stats

• 11th Ranked Team Globally
  
• Over 1,800 donations as a team
  
• 70 Team Members
  
• Largest Donation was $2500
  
• 89% Individual Donation increase from 2017
  
• 23% Overall Team Donation increase from 2017

October 22nd to November 5th marks the return of Fear Evolved and we have some frightening treats in store!  Stay tuned for a spooky trailer and more event details when the event begins tomorrow!  If you missed the last post on Fear Evolved:



PS4 Primitive+
The engineering team is still hard at work on a Primitive+ patch to resolve the latest issues from deployment.  We apologize for the inconvenience and look forward to bringing you good news soon.



There will be no EVO event rates while Fear Evolved event rates are active!

Until next time!

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